The fact that it's quite easy to activate Windows without money or a valid key makes this even funnier. He doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and neither do the people around him
Or it's supposed to be an insult? If it was licensed (even thru pirate means) it would look like they paid money to Microsoft.
This way, they have it and are using it without funding an American company.
The part were he is using Windows at all is crazy. Imagine the Pentagon running Russian os
It's a throw away computer. They went out and got a random shitbox from Andrei Blahblahnov at his corner computer repair shop that no one from any intelligence service would ever think to go to ahead of time.
Use the shit once, literally set it on fire in a field 30 minutes later.
Doesn't beat this show on a small local radio station in my town, that had a theme music with someone saying "audio jungle" every 20 seconds because they downloaded the demo from that site and never bothered to pay 5$ for the full version. I was selling stuff on audio jungle at that time, and had to stop on the side of the road cause I couldn't stop laughing.
I thought Putin had put a lot of people through windows; why the surprise?
Voting doesn't need to be secure in Russia because voting doesn't actually matter in Russia.
It does matter, just not the way you might think. Voting in dictatorships is basically a submission ritual.
Note Putin's monitor isn't even plugged in. Just, A+.
He also is not touching anything so maybe he’s using telepathy.
They don't bother activating his PCs anymore. He always gets frustrated and throws out the Windows.
Just saying... you don't need to activate windows. Been using an unactivated copy for years. You lose virtually nothing.
You mean like WinRAR?
"Do not worry, your vote will be counted. Even if you didn't cast it!"
Considering they don't know about massgrave.dev to permanently activate their copy and it's Windows 10, they probably also don't know about extended W10 EOL updates, which means that computer likely hasn't received a security update since October, 2025.
Based on the rumors about putin and his paranoia, I'd assume that computer is not connected to the internet lol
Some photos of him have really awkwardly positioned computers - like no way anyone works like that. Hence why some choose to believe him to be a complete luddite.
I think most of the pictures of him "using" a computer are very much staged and not his actual setup. But they probably have that stupid setup because he doesn't have a setup because he never uses one lol
Absolutely, that monitor isn't even plugged in. (No, seriously, look at it!)
Russia has no own processor production. ICL is one of the few Russian PC brands which uses AMD and Intel... So in fact there are no "Russian" pc's...
Russia has some Elbrus CPUs locally produced, but they are very outdated and very expensive, and also have a different processor architecture, so they find limited use. Apparently, they didn't bother supplying one for the President.
With all the Russian piracy sites, I assume nobody in Russia actually pays for software. I figure they just haven’t gotten around to cracking that machine yet.
I was in Turkey 25 years ago. Their tram system used the Windows warning "BLING" before calling out the station.
I was there last year, and when you go to charge your tram card in the machine, everyone of them has a "This version of Windows is unathorized. Click here to buy a license" message in the bottom left of the screen.
Gotta love the Turks.
Why dont they use Linux so weird.
Putin's a stupid old boomer who can send people to the gulag.
Do you want to teach him a new OS?
p.s. they have multiple nationalised Russian Linuxes i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Linux
I genuinely thought for a second that this was Putin voting in an 'Murican election Onion headline, but not the Onion...
Look, if you want to cast one vote then Russian hardware can handle it just fine, but if you have to cast thousands, that needs something faster.
He should have used Linux
"You can't go wrong." Isn't an observation, it's a threat.
Jeeves: "Will it be 87% again this year, sir?"
Putin: "Maybe 93%. Maybe."
It will be 79%
Nah it will be divisible by 5. They don't try very hard to hide the irregularities. There is a long history of oddly round results:
Pulled from here: https://github.com/dkobak/elections/tree/master
There are many fine soviet computers to use for pressing a button that does nothing.
Plot twist: it's not connected to the Internet. He has a button labeled "PRESS TO WIN ELECTION" installed in his dacha.
Red star os is a much better and safer choice for him.
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